Pentagon space arm awards $1.5 billion contract to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for communications satellites
An artist illustration shows the functions of the Space Development Agency's satellite constellation. Space Development Agency The Pentagon's Space Development Agency on Monday awarded $1.5 billion in contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for prototype communications satellites. SDA said the 72 satellites will be for the Beta variant of its…